“A massive turquoise glacier feeds into Magdalenefjord, with chunks of ice as big as buildings breaking off and landing in the water to float away as icebergs. As I swam past them, with my head in the water, I heard a tantalising sound: a snap-crackle-pop, just like Rice Krispies in milk. It was the sound of tiny air bubbles being released from the ice – air that had been trapped there as much as 3,000 years ago. To swim through this sound, I thought, is to swim in history.”

"The Ghosts of Roth," interview with Alan Finkielkraut, Esquire (September 1981)

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Into White
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

Oath of the four Grant children, first used in Ch. 2 : And Continues
The Ship that Flew (1939)

What It Is (2009)

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

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Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn’t worry me.

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage